5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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Poor HWK was taken in to hospital yesterday as his tummy bug had dehydrated him so badly, good news today having been to visit is he's much brighter and is now able to eat and drink again but no results as yet and still a poorly tum. Small mercies!

Dear James has just picked me up from the hospital and run me back home.

I cleaned and disinfected everything before I went so no housework other than a bleach wash of the bathrooms just to make sure left to do.


Anticipation of an early night as I didn't get back from A&E until gone 3 this morning.

Having a shower and a complete setoff new clothes this morning after A&E and the wait on the hot ward last night.

DigForVictory

RL going slightly mad, but pops in to wave...
MrsLW - All Strength To You & yours.
mhagster - just awed at how you keep on going
ampersand - hoping you're surviving and rugby is uplifting of spirits
VJsmum - stick at the paperwork - longing to hear where & when the official handshake with chancellor is!
All other posters active or erratic, thank you & please stick at it - I need your guidance to hear the birdsong etc.

Recent OS pleasures
Forwarded money saving for dog owners onto sister who adores her Labradors.

Son dropped in to say hullo on his way back from the pharmacy - just as well I make house calls with forgotten kit! Seems I’ll be allowed in some other time.... [Why have your independence & Fortress Of Solitude if your mum can just walk in?!]

I may have a new mildly guilty pleasure - the new MacGyver series. All very silly & amusing & a little neat engineering. (Not a patch on scrapheap challenge but appeals to a broader demographic.]

Made my husband laugh by snarling at the party conference coverage. Then surprised him by recognising the Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again as background music - someone making a statement, or comment!

There is a flower group of boats - the HMS Saxifrage. (Different war, says Himself, “they recycled names”....)

It was Friday & for no adequately explained reason the sun is out! [Not once I got out into it, of course, but good to see.]

Eldest has been food shopping & actually bought real raw ingredients! As well as a trifle. Got to cover the essential food groups...

Middleson retired to the bath in preparation for an early night after a week outward bounding & team building. Then will be out with his mountain biking pals all tomorrow.

Cousin appeared on Fb in hospital in US but smiling. A few emails later clarified she’s had needed surgery on her hand and is fine - trust the smile!

Son left tablet accessible, so I admired assorted photos & benevolently did not email them or copy them to a memory card. [*Startling* virtue on my part!]

Used Iceland discount to get strawberries to make extra jam. 6 sizes of jar (all bar 2 Kilner) cooking & clicking on the table. How not to love that “tlock” of lids sealing?!

Middleson has Finally got the two jars of damson jam over to a friend’s household - her dad likes damson jam, godfather had a monster damson surplus last year, I had Kilners and inclination & finally son thanked the matriarch for a lift home through the rain in style!

Ma foi. Lad opined he needed a haircut - and is now *so* short back & sides, his ears appear like flags. It’ll all grow again but he does look severely pruned! (He even shaved! Tidy and pruned.)

£1 final value fee listing this weekend - I’ll get the original Kilner jars (that I can’t afford the metal bands for, that were made 1932-48, That Original) listed. And the DPM sniper smock I picked up for gardening in & my husband identified as worth more to a collector! (I have an eclectic wardrobe & army surplus is wonderful for big pockets, taking abuse & washing splendidly.)

Our cannot be the only family to have the moonlight sonata as a sort of lullaby - so I snuggled under the duvet & let YouTube transport me back decades to that amazing place where even what sounds a bit wrong is right & the sheer familiarity has my eyelids drooping. (Dad can play it from memory &, if pleaded with, would - in exchange for bedtime & no argument!)

Those puffed rice biscuit things really are self flagellation in social packaging, aren’t they? I tried to defend one & the expressions made me realise!

Hearing my husband stand up for my homemade jam to his mother, who thinks it’s ridiculous (or as an evening pastime it’s daft).

Slightly puffed but very pleased - got jostaberry "cutting", 2 aldi tayberries & 2 aldi loganberries planted, despite weather, mountainbike locking me from chicken manure pellets etc. Time in DPM in the garden is good stuff.

Baffled by supermarket pricing. Modest jar of mincemeat 2Y, Stonking great jar fit to feed troop of scouts, Y...

Right, back to the daft waltz. All health, strength, love, courage, fluids & hwbs to all as have need!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Scrabble. BoPsie is only one win away from the chance of too on the bounce. Music is Marti Webb!

BoP leads 50 vs 35

Ives had a seven letterer! ENDORsE.

BoP leads 149 vs 67

BoPsie is shuffling her letters.

BoP leads 181 vs 104.

Music is still tell me it’s not sundae!

Music has ch@nged. The monster is loose. Meatloaf now. BooH 3. BoP leads 268 vs 158.

No tiles left inn the bag. BoPsie has kept her blank! BoP leads 310 vs 235.

BoPsie lays all her tiles. She needs BoP to had a hand like 35 in it! We have a result. BoP wins on 305 vs 248.

DundeeDoll

1) my goodness what a lot of rain. pleasure was that dogs no more wanted a long walk than i did!
2) I ploughed the fields and scattered at my old church
3) then we had shared lunch - i took in a (delicious if i say so myself) sausage casserole. secret ingredients were 3 tbsp branston and 1 tbsp worcester yum
4) and of course the joy of a shared lunch is i also had stovies, olive bread, pasta in a scrummy tomato sauce and sag aloo
5) home with gbf. rain had stopped. we took the boys on a very long walk then sat and reminisced about the good times with our respective partners - his partner died 3 years ago and of course mine left me for another very nearly 7 years ago. so lovely to talk about the good times, of which there were plenty.

villagelife

1. Watched rugby to start the day. Did some ironing while watching it.

2. Eventually took salvia cuttings. Hope it's not too late.

3. Went for a champagne afternoon tea. It was a birthday present (from May). Had a lovely time it was in a country house hotel. The good was very good and lots of it. The scones were excellent as we're the cakes. I decided to have elderflower and blossom Darjeeling tea which I enjoyed especially with extra water to weaken it slightly.I drink really weak black tea if I have it.

4. Chatting to DS2 about friends he had met at the weekend. One of which he met at age of 4'at school and been through school and University with him.

5. More flowers picked from the garden and in a vase. Very autumnal colours.

LaineyT

Sunday pleasures,

Woke up to rain lashing against windows and that’s how it stayed for most of the day, we certainly needed the rain just not all at once!

Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge.

A lovely warm bath with essential oils.

Watched GW with the lovely Monty and crew.

The skies had finally cleared by the time little dog had her final visit outside so indulged in a bit of stargazing.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP is on train avoiding Warster. Going Norff. No whippets has been seen. More later

DundeeDoll

bop for me and mhags you is still very sarff!
I have started a new challenge, instigated by my Provost's sermon last week which focussed on eco matters. He urged us to each pick up one discarded plastic bottle a day. I did start with one a day but have 2 days running also found a clean empty bag so used that to pick up more (saturday 4, yesterday 7!) so i have decided to keep a tally on my mse signature.

mhagster

Good morning! Tis my day off ...which looks like it will spent pushing and pulling washing out of the washing machine! Son had vomited big style yesterday...son had also been mountain biking in mud. Then daughter said oh I’ve stripped my bed! Then the usual everyday wash! Waaaaah! Heating is on to try and get some of it dry as it’s horrid outside.

There will be nice moments between the loads so I shall hold out for them!

I worked all day yesterday to allow main cook an extra day off as she’d missed hers when I was on holiday. It was fine. Kept busy without being crazy.

Drove as couldn’t bare the stagger home after a full day. Back massage tomorrow is much needed.

Had chicken and mashed potatoes for tea. And a piece of cake for pudding.

Message from friend..,did you get gift I left you?in between the plant pots! Have now! Lovely thanks

Snuggles on the sofa watching strictly with my doggy.

Hope poorly people feel better soon. Have a lovely day:)

MandM90

1. DH had some extra income of £350 over the weekend and put half into my pocket money, which was sweet. So now feeling flush as I haven't spent much from my usual pot anyway! I can also see from the budget that he's ordered me my birthday pressie
2. Lovely foods were had over weekend. To celebrate new oven I made toffee apple upside down cake, and on Sunday a full roast and apple crumble (using up apples from a relative's tree). Also made the BBC Good Food pea and potato soup for supper on Saturday which was easy and delicious.
3. Shiny things - DH enjoying his fancy coffee machine (and me too!) plus the new oven was delivered and installed on Saturday morning. The guys were very efficient...would definitely recommend AO. And I got cashback through quidco.
4. Managed to get newly framed prints of our favourite Irish city erected above the fireplace in our bedroom. Looks lovely and I'll enjoy waking up to them.
5. A chilled Sunday afternoon watching trashy movies - Casper the friendly ghost, and The Jackal.